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Blender 3D By Example.

You're reading from   Blender 3D By Example. A project-based guide to learning the latest Blender 3D, EEVEE rendering engine, and Grease Pencil

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612561
Length 658 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Oscar Baechler Oscar Baechler
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Xury Greer Xury Greer
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to 3D and the Blender User Interface 2. Editing a Viking Scene with a Basic 3D Workflow FREE CHAPTER 3. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 1 4. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 2 5. Modern Kitchen - Part 1: Kitbashing 6. Modern Kitchen - Part 2: Materials and Textures 7. Modern Kitchen - Part 3: Lighting and Rendering 8. Illustrating an Alien Hero with Grease Pencil 9. Animating an Exquisite Corpse in Grease Pencil 10. Animating a Stylish Short with Grease Pencil 11. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 1: Sculpting 12. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 2: Retopology 13. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 3: UV Unwrapping 14. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 4: Baking and Painting Textures 15. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 5: Rigging and Animation 16. The Wide World of Blender 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linking in canned assets

We'll finish the kitchen by linking or appending from a library of canned assets. When deadlines strike, seasoned artists throw three-dimensional scenes together from other resources that can be found or purchased on other websites. You'll also find that curiosity about other peoples' models can teach you about their workflows. We'll round out the last elements of the kitchen by looking at some pre-made assets and appending or linking them to the kitchen, as well.

Let's start by touring the pre-made assets file and see what we can learn from some of the example models. Open up ch05_cannedAssets.blend to get started. Here are some general explanations for the canned assets provided:

  • The scene is organized into collections. Some of these collections (fridge, dishwasher, stove, mirror, sideTable, and stoveCounters) hold a single...
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